New Foreign Service Chief
From Associated Press
WASHINGTON —
President Bush has announced that he will nominate Edward J. Perkins, a career diplomat and most recently the ambassador to South Africa, as director general of the Foreign Service. If confirmed by the Senate, he would succeed George Vest.
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